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Friday, February 27, 2009
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Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Three good things to share from today's Arts section of the NY Times; something local, something old and something to make you laugh (but only a chuckle under your breath).
1.) More Than Just a Theater, With More Than Just an Audience, a nice little bit of history on the 75th anniversary of the Apollo Theatre.
2.) Putting virgin turds in their place. REVIEW: Jonas Bros Movie
“Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience” isn’t a movie so much as a devotional object, a kind of secular fetish designed to induce rapture. Submitting to the experience requires initiation into the teenybopper cult of the Jonas brothers trinity — Joe, Kevin and Nick — purveyors of innocuous, repetitive guitar pop and the kind of bland sexuality that provokes a certain type of teenage girl to wait 72 hours in the rain in Times Square for a chance to glimpse the godhead.
More About This MovieDirected with slick banality by Bruce Hendricks, “Jonas Brothers” consists of concert footage from a 2008 Madison Square Garden spectacular supplemented by ridiculous behind-the-scenes tidbits: the brothers pull up to a Virgin Megastore for the midnight release of their new album, fend off a throng of screaming fans, purchase three copies, then pile back into the limo and drive away.
The default camera position places the viewer in a sea of teenage fists clutching glow sticks, cameras or cellphones. Guitar picks are repeatedly — three dimensionally! — chucked at the screen. If you’ve ever wanted to crawl into Kevin’s chest hair, this is as close as you’re likely to get without incurring a restraining order.
3.) In the upcoming concerts section Amanda Petrusich writes Blitzen Trapper are "often — and accurately — compared to Pavement..." Am I fucking crazy? Blitzen Trapper doesn't remind me of Pavement one bit. Pavement is willfully shambolic where BT are finely tuned, filled out and polished—pop mapped out almost overly so. They're both sort of nerdy, but Pavement are slackers where BT seems more like math-class overachievers. Not to mention the BT singer is pretty dang obsessed with acoustic 60's folk, where Pavement comes from, what, 80's punk...? This is crazy... no, no and no. And, most of all, I loves me some Pavement and can't stand Blitzen Trapper.
Your thoughts?
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that BT/Pavement statement is clearly the most wrong thing ever.
whoever would say that?!
Anyone who has listened to Blitzen Trapper pre-"Furr" can hear similarities between the two bands. It's not much of a stretch at all.
The real story here, though: You can't stand Blitzen Trapper? The BEST band in a city full of GREAT bands?
Are you KIDDING?
Who the fuck do you think you are?
1. Why are you reporting on a band comparison made by a random "journalist" out of NYC?
2. Why are you reporting on how personally offended you are that your band comparison is not the comparison compared by some random "journalist" out of NYC?
3. After giving your "band"/"music" a listen on Myspace,(Rifle for anyone who wants a good laugh, but only a chuckle under the breath) I couldn't help but compare and naturally share. The entirety of the second song you posted could have been a PART in one of Kim and Thurston's SONGS but got killed because, well, it was so fucking boring. The first song is a very gray version of a Black Keys, or maybe a White Stripes song. For anyone who cares, I hate the White Stripes and the Black Keys.
Dear Corkey,
You forgot to review my solo music (which is strange since you know so much about me).
Dear "R",
Touche... Seriously.
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